I notice that employees get hats and place in the top ten (probably due to our upvotes, and appreciation of their helpfulness, and for no other reason).
Do they get secret hats based on a different ...

We obtained 266K hats this past year's WB 2019 contest, and just like the past two Winter Bashes (2017 and 2018) we showed off our new hats.
We choose our finest hats, used the positioning controls ...

Unfortunately, I have to start with a brief disclaimer: I very much dislike how SE Inc. again made another decision (about changing questions weight) that affects the community without consulting the ...

A recent question about possibly applying a historical lock to old swag/fun posts led me to think about how on-topicness is defined for swag/fun questions.
Right now, all or virtually all of our fun ...

Stack Overflow frequently gives out swag for contests, such as the Stack Overflow's 10 Million Questions contest. More recently, more contests were organised including Who cut the cheese? and Time for ...

NOTE: for this year, there's a new topic: Winter Bash 2019 Knitting
This year's Winter Bash got us great hat challenges, but it also gave us a very nice tool for knitting on the main Winter Bash site....

UPDATE: JNat will be sending out emails to collect addresses from the lucky users getting a cheese board — be on the lookout for those! :)
We've moved quite a bit of stuff around this year, and you'...

In my culture, the preferred metaphor for something whose function is simply to be a passive recipient of your utterances is a 'pot plant'. I am uncomfortable talking to the duck.
Could there be an ...

Since daily rep caps out at 200, a large majority of upvotes on Jon's posts never get "counted" as rep.
For example, more than 70 upvotes on 11/17/17 did not count toward his rep total.
My question ...

Fun is Important™. Yet, we at Stack Exchange tend to hate it (edit it out, close it as not useful, etc.), unless it's in "irrelevant" places like chat and the comments section.
As long as it doesn't ...

I received a really nice SO mug as swag for the choose your own swag contest this year. Everything was working fine until this morning. Was there a patch or update or something?
Here's the relevant ...

So I'm sure a lot of you are aware of Aarthi's Roaming Unicorn project. (If not: we have a super-cool SE unicorn plushie named Lady Stackicorn, and she's been roaming the globe and having super cool ...

Since there are over 4.8 million (4.3m on SO, 211k on SF, 330k on SU) users on the original trinity alone, Stack Exchange is the size of a small country. (More than Costa Rica) Even small countries ...

They were on Meta Stack Overflow previous year, but since the split occurred, I would expect them to appear here, on Meta Stack Exchange, this year. Will it happen (or any discussion on it)? I want ...